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News January 10, 2014

Breedlove Guitars Premier Series

The Premier series offers an auditorium, concert, dreadnought, and jumbo body shape with both a solid East Indian rosewood and solid Honduran mahogany back and side option. It also offers…

MMR Staff
Jan 10, 2014
News January 10, 2014

Fret-King Exige Guitar

Fret-King’s new Exige, which will be revealed for the very first time at the NAMM Show 2014, features a double cutaway body, two double coil Fret-King pickups (with the Fret-King…

MMR Staff
Jan 10, 2014
News January 10, 2014

Legator 400 Series

[caption id="attachment_48910" align="alignleft" width="800"]Legator 400 Series[/caption]Built in Los Angeles, Calif., these Limited Edition guitars will feature precision sculpted bodies in AAAAA woods and hand-shaped satin necks. The Legator Ninja 400…

MMR Staff
Jan 10, 2014
News January 6, 2014

Fender's Strat Turns 60

The Fender Stratocaster (recent MMR Dealers' Choice Award-winner) guitar turns 60 in 2014. The ubiquitous instrument remains as popular as ever, and hardly a day goes by when you don’t hear its signature sound.…

MMR Staff
Jan 6, 2014
News January 6, 2014

Full Compass Promotes Kjensrud, Glojek

Full Compass Systems has announced two new promotions of key individuals within the company.  Kyle Kjensrud moved up from assistant product manager to general merchandising manager & planning supervisor. Kjensrud…

MMR Staff
Jan 6, 2014
News January 5, 2014

Prase Engineering Now Distributing Shure in Italy

Shure has named Prase Engineering as its new exclusive distributor for Italy. The Venice-based organization takes on distribution for Shure and its DIS conferencing products across the country as of January 16th.…

MMR Staff
Jan 5, 2014
News January 5, 2014

DWV Orchestrates Sale of Soundsphere to MSE

The Mergers & Acquisitions arm of David Wiener Ventures (DWV) has helped broker a successful acquisition in the audio industry: after more than 25 years as a leader in omni-directional…

MMR Staff
Jan 5, 2014
News January 3, 2014

Young Chang Announces the Return of Denny Reed

Young Chang announces the return of industry veteran Denny Reed. Reed has been in the industry since 1973 and spent time with a number of manufactures including Young Chang from…

MMR Staff
Jan 3, 2014
News January 3, 2014

Roland's F-20 Digital Piano

Roland’s F-20 Digital Piano is an entry-level instrument that is also compatible with Roland’s free interactive apps for Apple iOS devices.With the functions, appearance, and texture of keyboards found in…

MMR Staff
Jan 3, 2014
News January 2, 2014

Lamond Honored with Midwest Clinic's Music Industry Award

Joe Lamond received the Midwest Clinic's Music Industry Award  for his outstanding support of music education. Among his accomplishments on behalf of music education, Lamond was honored as instrumental in…

MMR Staff
Jan 2, 2014
News December 31, 2013

Wrong Direction? Sorry, Chief – No Direction Yet

[caption id="attachment_48890" align="alignleft" width="800"]One Direction for the MI industry?[/caption]Last January, MMR’s longtime publisher Sid Davis wrote in his editorial column about the floppy-haired moppets in One Direction, the Simon Cowell-created…

MMR Staff
Dec 31, 2013